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Hunting activities were influential in the evolution of one of the Natural Parks in the Sierra Morena, the Natural Park of Sierra de Andújar, in Andalusia, Spain. Big-game hunting reduced the possibility for the currently protected area to be put to other uses such as agriculture, cattle-raising, or, more recently, urbanization, activities that transformed a large part of the Mediterranean mountains elsewhere in Andalusia. While hunting made difficult the development of intensive tourism-related activities, it left the door open to other economic endeavors linked to the agri-food business. This paper presents a historical overview of the influence big-game hunting exerted from the 19th century to the present in this particular park, an influence that explains its peculiar character and place within the Sierra Morena.